US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on Aug. 11 for "External environment recognition device and external environment recognition method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,033, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"External environment recognition device and external environment recognition method" was invented by Takeshi Nagasaki (Hitachinaka, Japan), Haruki Matono (Tokyo), Takuma Osato (Tokyo), Hiroki Moizumi (Hitachinaka, Japan), Keisuke Iwasaki (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Masayuki Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT RECOGNITION DEVICE that reduces an influence on a ranging error caused by a temporal change of an optical system/imaging system is provided by focusing on characteristics (individual difference) of the optical syst...